Degradation of Phenolic Acids by Azotobacter Species Isolated from Sorghum Fields
Description:
Sorghum plants excrete phenolic acids which reduce subsequent crop yields. These acids accumulate in field soil by combining with soil and clay particles to form stable complexes which remain until degraded by bacterial metabolism. The amount of phenolic acids in soil samples were obtained by gas chromatography measurements, while Azotobacter populations were obtained by plate counts in 40 sorghum field samples from Denton County, Texas. One can conclude that increasing the Azotobacter populati…
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Date:
August 1989
Creator:
Al-Hadhrami, Mohamed N. (Mohamed Nasser)